Sunday, June 1, 2008

Targeting Michelle Obama

I mentioned two weeks ago that Larry Johnson – a pro-Hillary blogger and former CIA man – was spreading a rumor about Michelle Obama. A rumor that Michelle is caught on videotape using the term “whitey” at Trinity United Church of Christ.

I thought it was bullshit then. I think it’s bullshit now.

Well... the rumor was spoken aloud today on national television. Would it surprise you to know that it was... Fox News?

Absolutely sickening. Even more sickening is the man who uttered it: the notorious Republican “dirty-trickster” Roger Stone.

Stone’s career as a saboteur goes back to 1972, when he worked for the Committee to Re-Elect the President (Richard Nixon).

Here’s what Roger Stone told Geraldo Rivera on Fox News this afternoon, according to a poster at the liberal forum Democratic Underground:

“Some indelible record exists of public remarks that Michelle Obama allegedly made which are outrageous... including some reference to white people as whiteys allegedly.”

Stone went on to say: “I believe a major network now has this tape.”

A poster at Larry Johnson’s blog also wrote about Roger Stone’s Fox News claim.

Supposedly Geraldo told Stone: “I will give you a hundred bucks if it is true. I don’t believe it is true.”

True or not, this poisonous gossip has now seeped from the malarial swamps of the blogosphere into the quasi-legitimate corporate media.

Fox News must be dealt with. Plain and simple.

While I cogitate on that, let me remind you that Roger Stone, apart from being a famous political knife-fighter, is also a renowned sex pervert. He resigned from Bob Dole’s campaign in 1996 when the National Enquirer discovered an ad that Stone and his wife had placed in a swingers magazine.

Here is Roger Stone’s “INSATIABLE COUPLE” ad:

“We are hot, athletic and very fit. We are seeking similar couples or exceptional muscular, well hung, single men. She’s 40DD-24-36 and bi. She loves to fuck hard and deep. He’s 195 lbs., trim, muscular and 8” +. She prefers jocks, military men, and body builders. No fat people or smokers need respond. Send photo and phone. ...”

The photo below on the right was published with this swinger ad. The one on the left is Roger Stone as he looks today.

This wasn’t something Roger Stone just blurted out, with Geraldo trying to shut him down. Stone’s entire appearance was built around this so-called “incendiary prediction” about Michelle Obama. Geraldo teed it up for him... even as he pretended to be offended!

By the way, hearing it from his own lips... Stone’s shit sounds extremely weak.

To be honest, I hope this tape is true. It would be quite a spectacle.

It would be more than a spectacle, SJ. It would be a killshot.

Which is why, if such a tape existed, the Clinton campaign -- in do-or-die mode for the past couple of months -- would've found a way to get it out there.

Therefore... doesn't exist. Or rather: It exists in that magical parallel universe where there's also videotape of Hillary making out with Huma Abedin; and Obama having gay limousine sex; and John McCain collaborating with his Communist captors.

Loved the New Yorker Stone piece, but kept waiting for one question that was never asked: Rog, when did you start taking human growth hormone and steroids, and how did you get it?Still think he'll show up in one of those Albany or IRS investigations of illegal roid dealing by "compounding pharmacies," like a lot of baseball players did.BTW, I'm whitey, and I complain about whitey.

Most white people don't fear Michelle Obama because she says things like "whitey."

In reality, most are merely mimicking the juvenile hypersensitivity learned from black victim culture while others are experiencing their first realization of just how oppressive black victimology has become.

What amazes me is how people like Stone, swinger, who should have crawled under a rock after their scandals emerge, e.g., Rush Limbaugh, drug addict, are even allowed on television, much less treated seriously.

BTW, when's the last time you called anyone "whitey"? There are a whole lot of words that I use to cuss people, but that isn't even on my list.

Just read the New Yorker piece on the weekend and was fascinated to see the idiot actually speak. Did anyone else think he looked drugged? In what universe is this piece of pond scum a "political analyst"? Geraldo, you outdo yourself in the lowest common denominator category. After watching the video I felt like I needed a bath. And I'm another whitey who wouldn't turn a hair if I heard Michelle Obama had said that. Many of us richly deserve it!

Can a white person please stand up and admit that they are genuinely offended by the words "whitey" or "honky"? Maybe it's from 300+ years of being called a dirty nigger/mammy/coon and whatever other dagger-like terms that have been used for black folks, but I just fail to see the sting that a term like "whitey" could ever deliver. I WISH there were a slur that diminutive for black folks. Whitey and honky sound like play-names for the trailer-trash versions of dudes with names like junebug and peanut.

i bitch about whitey all the time. the nobel laureate j.m. coetzee and his disgusting post-apartheid novel, Disgrace, just days ago.meanwhile, how deal with fox news? boycott of advertisers? can fcc licenses still be challenged or have they co-opted that?i will watch this space.

Thembi is right. I've been cursed out a few times by black folks and no, no whitey or honkey, not even an ofay. I've been called guerito in Mexico which literally means whitey, but with at most mild mockery...

The tape business is an effort to persuade credulous folks that something like this really exists, and unnerve Obama supporters. Darkest fears -- deep down, maybe he really hates us! You're gonna see the whole catalogue of racist nightmares in the next five months -- Muslim antichrist terrorist black nationalist drug-peddler, havin' gay sex in the limo between appointments. I see a screenplay.

It's also an interesting lesson in the differences between gender and race. There's no Hillary Clinton rumor you could make up that would freak people out like this.

I'm hearing the Barack might have another "video problem." I talked to somebody who has seen an Obama family home video, and one of Obama's daughters can clearly be heard saying that she "hates crackers."

As far as name calling goes none of that comes even close to the level of hateful names that get leveled at people whose skin ain't white.

Perhaps the fact that Stone is a deviant, and I mean that in a semantical way as opposed to a judgmental way, shouldn't come into play with regard to what he's "reporting" but really at the end of the day, it all comes down to credibility.

If you are going to besmirch someone else's credibility you are asking to have your own examined.

Stone is practicing "yellow journalism" when he reports sensationalized rumors as news. Hearst started a war with that crap and Fox News is doing everything they can to sink Obama with the same tactics.

It's more offensive than the word whitey will ever be. So is Stone and I'm not talking about his sexual habits. I could give a shit about that - although he should really keep his shirt on.

Hee hee, I remember reading this dude's ad in the DC city paper personals (for informational purposes only, you understand)(that shit's a lot tamer here in Charleston SC), it was running in various permutations for well over a year. As soon as I heard that a big-time R. politico was advertising for group stuff, I thought, oh yeah, that dude. As a lean liberal non-smoker, I'm glad this asshole is now sporting a body like an unmade bed.

Yes, I am offended by Whitey, Honkey, Cracker, Peckerwood, Redneck, and all the others. I have genuinely known black people who hated me for no reason other than the color of my skin, and make it perfectly clear, in those words and others.

I'll stop being offended when it doesn't matter. When the First Lady of the United States uses racial slurs casually, the US is in a bad place, past or future. That is the way it has been, and that is how it will be.